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AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



U A Bird on the plate is worth 2 in the bag." 

 AND NOW COMES THE 5 th COMPETITION. 



Recreation has conducted 4 amateur 

 photographic competitions, all of which 

 have been eminently successful. A fifth 

 will be held, which, it is believed, will be 

 far more fruitful than any of the others. 

 It opened April 1st, 1900, and will close 

 September 30th, 1900. 



Following is a list of prizes to be 

 awarded: 



First prize: A Long-Focus Korona Camera, 5x7, made 

 \ y the Gundlach Optical Co., Rochester, N. Y., fitted 

 with a Turner-Reich Anastigmat Lens, and listed at $85. 



Second prize : A Reflex Camera, 4x5, made by the 

 Reflex Camera Co., Yonker?, N. Y., fitted with a Goerz 

 Double Anastigmat Lens, and listed at $75. 



Third prize : An Al-Vista-Panoramic Camera made by 

 the Multiscope and Film Co., Burlington, Wis., and listed 

 at $40. 



Fourth Prize: A Wizard C Camera, 4x5, made by the 

 Manhattan Optical Co, Cresskill, N.J., with B. & L. 

 Iris Diaphragm and Leather Carrying Case; listed at $33. 



Fifth prize: A Waterproof Wall Tent, 12x16, made by 

 D. T. Abercombie & Co., New York, and listed at $32. 



Sixth prize: A Gold Hunting Case Watch, listed at $30. 



Seventh Prize: A Tourist Hawkeye Camera, 4x5, made 

 by the Blair Camera Co., Rochester, N Y., and listed at 



Eighth prize: A Bristol Steel Fishing Rod, made by the 

 Horton Mfg. Co , Bristol, Conn., and listed at $6. 



The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded one 

 dozen 8x10 Carbutt Plates, made by the Carbutt Dry 

 Plate Co., Wayne Junction, Philadelphia, Pa. 



The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded one 

 dozen 5x7 Carbutt Plates. 



The 10 next best pictures will eac:i be awarded one 

 dozen 4x5 Carbutt plates. 



Subjects are limited to wild animals, 

 birds, fishes, camp scenes, and to figures 

 or groups of persons, or other animals, 

 representing in a truthful manner, shoot- 

 ing, fishing, amateur photography, bicy- 

 cling, sailing, or other form of outdoor or 

 indoor sport or recreation. Awards to be 

 made by 3 judges, none of whom shall be 

 competitors. 



Conditions: Contestants must submit 2 

 mounted prints, either silver, bromide, 

 platinum or carbon, of each subject, which, 

 as well as the negative, shall become the 

 property of Recreation. The name and 

 address of the sender and title of picture 

 to be plainly written on back of each print. 

 Daylight, flashlight or electric light pic- 

 tures admissible. Prize winning photo- 

 graphs to be published in Recreation, full 

 credit being given in all cases. 



Any number of subjects may be sub- 

 mitted. - 



Pictures that may have been published 

 elsewhere, or that may have been entered 

 in any other competition, not available. 

 No entry fee charged. 



Don't let people who pose for you look at the 

 camera. Occupy them in some other way. 

 Many otherwise fine pictures have failed 

 to win in the former competitions because 

 the makers did not heed this warning. 



THE CHlCAciO SALON OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ART, 



GENE S. PORTER 



The first Salon of Photographic Art was 

 held in Philadelphia, in '98; the second in 

 Chicago, April 3d to 18th, 1000, in the Art 

 Institute. This was under the joint man- 

 agement of the Chicago Society of Ama- 

 teur Photographers and the Art Institute. 

 The Comittee of Selection was composed 

 of Alfred Steiglitz and Joseph T. Keiley. 

 of New York; Eva Lawrence Watson, of 

 Philadelphia, and Clarence H. White 

 Newark, Ohio. 



The honor of having a photo hung was 

 the only award. The amateur work was 

 placed on the walls of one large room, and 

 that of the Committee of Selection in a 

 smaller room alone. The walls of the 

 amateur room were covered with palm 

 green burlap, and of the committee room 

 with dull red. The framing of most of the 

 pictures gave evidence of being home 

 work, or, at least, of having been done 

 under the direct supervision of the arti>ts. 

 and in nearly every case was appropriate 

 and artistic. Among the mounts, shades of 

 gray predominated, with some tans and 

 greens, and in one or 2 cases, dull reds 

 The print paper was all Aristo, Velox or 

 some of the rough, dull finish papers, ami 

 glass was used in every instance except 

 one. 



One thousand pictures were sent in. and 

 160 of them were hung. Forty of those 

 chosen were the work of the Committee 

 of Selection, and the remaining 120 the 

 work of 44 amateurs, some having one 

 each and some io, the full number allowed 

 one person. That the work of only 44 

 amateurs should pass muster out of the 

 hundreds represented proves there was 

 careful sifting; yet, why many of them 

 were chosen I could not understand. 

 Neither could I find anyone so high in 

 the realms of sculpture, painting or ph<> 

 tography that he knew. If the work on 

 the rejected photos was worse than that on 

 a goodly number of those that were hung', 

 many amateurs are laboring ill vain. 



The work of Chicago amateurs 

 cepted in only 4 instances: William B. 

 Dyer. 10; William Page, 4: Louis Lamb 

 and Mary H. Beman. one each 1 was re 

 peatedly told that Chicago amateurs felt 

 very sore, as even the work ol T. George 

 Hislop, president of the Amateur S 

 was rejected. New York had 7 represen 

 tatives; Boston. Philadelphia, Buffalo, 

 Washington, Detroit and many h 

 cities were represented; while Ohio 1 

 ried off the palm with the work ma 



teurs accepted. Akron having 3, Xewark 

 2, Marietta one. and Zanesvilh 



The exhibit was tin- finest ever shown in 

 America. Some of the phot 

 true in values, -,u perfect in lit. om- 



